> I'm working on the side on creating a company and those opinions lead me to choose the harder path of desktop applications which don't need Internet connection for anything that doesn't require it by definition. They're more resilient and comfortable to use. I'll probably fail, but I really can't make any other choice at the moment, I need to at least try and see for myself.

Very refreshing, I really appreciate that choice. As humans in tech I'm sure it's frustrating that everything requires accounts and constantly online services, since we can imagine the software working perfectly fine without it. Games are especially nefarious with account requirements, but even different work software will fail without an account. Using a modern 3D art authoring pipeline can easily have you logged in to two or three services while you work.